Ultimate Meter Challenge

Conference attendees who own or work at a utility (cities, municipalities, water districts and so on). You must be at the conference in person to compete.

MRWS staff and board members, their immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members are not eligible.

This Competition is to test and measure individuals on how quickly, totally, and accurately they can assemble a working meter. All parts will be assembled to the diagram given, meter will be tested for leaks, meter will be disassembled to ensure it was assembled properly and no parts are missing.

This is a test of skill for individuals. To facilitate many competitors, we will be conducting a single elimination tournament, where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament . Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the Challenge Winner.

Each individual competitor will be required to completely assemble a water meter commonly utilized by water utilities for residential customers. The faster build with zero leaks in each match up will be the winner and move on to next bracket.

Each competitor will be furnished with a meter kit. This kit will contain a completely disassembled meter. In addition, random parts will be added to this kit. These random parts could/could not be related to the meter. Each kit will have the same extra parts, this will ensure that the competitor is thoroughly familiar with all parts of the meter he/she is assembling.

A time period of no more than five (5) minutes shall be allowed for each competitor to complete his/her meter assembly.

All parts are assembled to the diagram given, the meter is tested for leaks, then taken apart to check it was assembled properly and no parts are missing. In each match-up, the faster build with zero leaks wins and moves on to the next bracket.

Yes: Zenner Meter Challenge Flyer 2027 MRWS (PDF).